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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
November 15th
Joseph Edmund Peckover (15-11-1896 - 16-04-1982) British-American composer
Joseph Peckover was an endgame study composer. According to Bill Wall and EG-48,
Joseph Peckover was the best known American chess composer in the early 20th century. He was born in England but emigrated first to Canada, where he edited an endings column in the "Regina Daily Reader" and to New York in 1921. He was the endgame editor for the American Chess Quarterly from 1961 to 1965. He has worked principally as a free-lance portrait artist, concentrating in the 1970s on coloured pencil portraits of children.
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Joseph Peckover was an endgame study composer. According to Bill Wall and EG-48,
Joseph Peckover was the best known American chess composer in the early 20th century. He was born in England but emigrated first to Canada, where he edited an endings column in the "Regina Daily Reader" and to New York in 1921. He was the endgame editor for the American Chess Quarterly from 1961 to 1965. He has worked principally as a free-lance portrait artist, concentrating in the 1970s on coloured pencil portraits of children.
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1.Kd8 Rd6+ 2.Ke7 Rc6 3.Kd7 Rh6 4.Bf6 ! Bb1 5.Ke6 Rh5 6.Bg5 ! Rh8 7.Bd8 Rh5 8.Bg5 ! draw
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